03/21/2019
Looking crisp just off the press! This is precisely why DIY screen printing is the best hobby ever. BHBC swag won’t always be produced in a dude’s basement, we promise 😉...but it’s fun to mess with some prelim stuff for the time being.
Big Heist Beer Company
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Big Heist Beer Company is a new craft brewery coming to the city of South St. Paul in Fall 2019.
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South St. Paul Brewery in the Works
Big Heist Beer Company is a new brewery and tap room coming to the city of South St. Paul (SSP) in Fall 2019. Just a stone’s throw from 494 in the heart of SSP, the 12,500 sq. ft. facility will feature a spacious taproom, outdoor patio, and rooftop deck with views of the Mississippi River. Big Heist will be a product-forward brewery focused on crafting beer worthy of its roots in the rich Twin Cities brewery scene. Big Heist will be a warm, friendly place serving our local SSP community and welcoming beer enthusiasts from across the region.
What’s up with the name?
We felt it was critical to build the brand for our brewery around something that tied us to the local community. Not something generic, surface-level, and obvious, but rather something deep and interesting that would allow us to tell a story; an idea that would help steer our brand and, ultimately, the direction of our brewery. SSP’s history is rich, steeped in hockey, cattle stockyards, meat packing, and other industries that helped shape the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area as we know it today. But our research took us down a slightly different path, one that is exciting and, perhaps, even just a bit sinister...
In August 1933, the Barker-Karpis gang - consisting of Fred Barker and Alvin “Creepy”Karpis and which also had ties to the famous John Dillinger - scouted South St. Paul for several weeks before making their move. Their goal: to intercept the stockyard payroll, which was coming by Great Western Railroad train from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis to South St. Paul. The robbery occurred shortly before 10 a.m. that day when the six bandits escaped with $30,000 in cash taken from bank messengers in front of the post office building. The location for our new brewery is just steps away from where that heist occurred some 85 years ago.
